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If you haven't heard of the Downing Street Memo yet -- and if you're an American, there's a good chance you haven't -- you can read it here, or (and?) you could read my comments on the memo and Bush and the memo and the MSM, or (and?) you could take a look at some of these blogs here.

...that is you coud if the server were working. Hopefully this won't last long.

I figured it's high time I got to adding this blogroll.
If you haven't heard of the Downing Street Memo yet -- and if you're an American, there's a good chance you haven't -- you can read it here, or (and?) you could read my comments on the memo and Bush and the memo and the MSM, or (and?) you could take a look at some of these blogs here.

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How was the trust broken on dKos. It came up to medium flame with the Langevin/NARAL debacle. There was a frontpage where Kos "called" the election for Chaffee because in his estimation only Langevin could have won and it was those stupid women who were trying to hijack the party for their own agenda. Many women implored Kos to instead of righting off the new pro-choice Dem candidates to give it that old Kos spirit and rally around the new entrees... yet that was answered with more post with polls showing how Chaffee was "going to win" and more rants about NARAL. Never mind that many pointed out that there was still 18 months to the election. Then it went full flame when NARAL (IMO rightly so) endorsed Chaffee. I call it the "Burning Bed" bitch slap from the NARAL to the DSCC. Of course this ensured more rants and rave now with Armando chirping in... the Pie Fight was the bitch slap on the micro level.

Could both of these events been avoided HELL YEAH... but it takes strong "fair" leadership... Herein lies the rub... BTW ...Dean has this by the buckets and this is the type of leadership we should loom for and support in the Democratic Party.

It is no longer just good enough to support a pro-life candidate just because he has a d (miniscule) behind his name when there are little girls in Texas asking their boyfriends to kick the in the stomach for a homemade abortions...and "activist" pharmacist who have the blessings of Kerry and Hilliary to discriminate against women buy birth control.... enough is enough... this is not a "pet issue".

As for the men who continue to insist that we're all really just upset over a T&A ad featuring bimbos in a pie fight, all I can say is that your own willful ignorance speaks volumes, and serves as vivid illustration of the very mindset with which we take issue: that unless men can agree and approve, women's ideas, concerns and issues are irrelevant and even wrong.

It's an obscenity, what Bush did to our service men and women, lying to justify a war where they had to go fight and bleed and die. Bob Herbert puts it well:

Now, with George W. Bush in charge, the nation is mired in yet another tragic period marked by incompetence, duplicity, bad faith and outright lies coming once again from the very top of the government. Just last month we had the disclosure of a previously secret British government memorandum that offered further confirmation that the American public and the world were spoon-fed bogus information by the Bush administration in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.

President Bush, as we know, wanted to remove Saddam Hussein through military action. With that in mind, the memo damningly explained, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

That's the kind of deceit that was in play as American men and women were suiting up and marching off to combat at the president's command. Mr. Bush wanted war, and he got it. Many thousands have died as a result.

Are you wondering why nobody is talking about the Downing Street Secret Memo? Are you wondering what it is? Go take action and make some noise on the subject.

How ironic. Just a couple days since the naming of Deep Throat, who provided incriminating details about Nixon's lies, bribes and coverups, here we're wondering why, by numerous accounts now, Bush and company lied to the American people, and the world, cooking up "facts" to fit their pre-existing agenda to invade and occupy Iraq, and nobody in the press is talking about it.

Nobody's even asking questions.

Conservatives like to cry "liberal media bias." They point at the media and make this accusation. The thing is, the cause and effect are flipped from what they claim. In fact, their crying wolf has effectively cowed the press.

Editors will say it's because the American people don't care. But a majority of Americans believe that Saddam Hussein caused 9/11. That is a failing of the American media. The fact that most Americans bought into the pre-war lies also is indication that the press done fucked up.

So what about it, network rock stars? Is anyone going to risk getting their moussed hair mussed? What about it, tastemaker editors? Is anyone going to actually run an article pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes?